ve climbed within thhree games of the AL West-leading Rangers and just half a game out of the wild card.dddddddddddd Given their talent advantage and improved trajectory, the Astros appear poised to take control of the West and win their first division crown since 2001.Luhnows plan has worked, but a c

South Africas George Coetzee is hoping to defend his title as he targets a second consecutive win at the Tshwane Open at Pretoria Country Club this week.Coetzee is confident that playing on the course he grew up on gives him a great advantage to seal a fourth European Tour victory.The 29-year-old finished seventh in the Commercial Bank Quatar Masters two weeks ago, before a final-round 69 put him tied-26th at the Omega Dubai Desert Classic last week. George Coetzee won last years tournament by a single shot I know Im playing well, which only adds to the excitement of the tournament. Coetzee told the European Tour website. Ive struck the ball very well the last three weeks but mentally I havent been quite as sharp as I wouldve liked, maybe because I havent been used to posting really low scores for a while.Coetzee enjoyed a good run of form following an emotional victory at the Pretoria Country Club last year, going on to win his third European Tour event at the AfrAsia Bank Mauritius Open in May, and says his knowledge of the Pretoria Country Club may give him an advantage. Charl Schwartzel has finished in the top 10 in his last three European Tour events and is the top ranked player in the event Its where I grew up. I played my first event there so to win last year was a dream come true, Coetzee said. Its my home course and Ive got a lot of good memories, so I probably know the course better than anyone.Knowing the course gives me a bit of a head start on some of the guys, but the standard on the tour is so high, just knowing the place well isnt going to be enough.It is quite a thinkers course though, so the guys who have played it before do have a bit of an advantage. Haydn Porteous is one of three 2016 season European Tour winners playing in this event The biggest threats to Coetzee are in-form compatriots Charl Schwartzel, a 2011 Masters champion, and Haydn Porteous, who won his maiden Tour victory at the Joburg Open in January.Schwartzel has finished inside the top 10 in his past three European Tour events, but is yet to feature in a European Tour event in 2016. Also competing are fellow South African Brandon Stone, who secured his first maiden victory at the BMW SA Open in January, and course record-holder Jacques Blaauw, who finished second in last years event. 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Using his superior athleticism, St-Pierre cruised to a five round, unanimous decision victory setting up a much-anticipated title defence against number one contender Johny Hendricks.When GM Jeff Luhnow joined the Astros in December of 2011, he began one of the most comprehensive rebuilding efforts in recent memory. Since the Astros had lost in the World Series in 2005, the team had been stuck in baseball purgatory, winning between 73 and 86 games per season for the rest of the decade. That was too few wins to make the playoffs but too many wins to land impact draft talent. Luhnow allowed the team to bottom out. He traded away their veterans for prospects, which allowed their young players a chance to play and develop in the majors. They won just 55 and 51 games in his first two years (2012 and 2013), which landed them top draft picks and a larger draft spending pool.Luhnows plan followed a similar blueprint to the one the Rays used to become successful in the late 2000s and that the Cubs followed recently to become the best team in the NL. It can be a painful, five-year rebuild, but once its finished, teams are set up for sustained success. So its no surprise that the Astros developed into a really good team under Luhnow, but its a little surprising that it happened so quickly. In just his fourth season with the team in 2015, the Astros made the leap to 86 wins and a playoff berth as several of their elite prospects like Carlos Correa and George Springer became impact major leaguers.Following their recent hot play this season, the Astros have climbed within thhree games of the AL West-leading Rangers and just half a game out of the wild card.dddddddddddd Given their talent advantage and improved trajectory, the Astros appear poised to take control of the West and win their first division crown since 2001.Luhnows plan has worked, but a couple of months ago, the teams outlook could not have been more different. To start this season, the Astros quickly fell to 10 games under .500. The kind narrative would have been that the Astros young stars had entered sophomore slumps; the cruel narrative would have been that the Astros success in 2015 was an extended hot streak, and the team was not ready to have sustained success. However, both of those narratives fall victim to the common fallacy of baseball fans to over-inflate the importance of the first month of the season.Over the course of a 162-game season, many excellent teams will have extended periods of poor performance. However, when those slumps happen at the beginning of the season, they form an impression of teams that can be difficult to reshape, even after their play and results improve. The Astros are a perfect example of this. Their 7-17 start to the season was the second worst in the AL, but since May 1, they have the best record in the league at 48-29. ' ' '